How the hell can anyone acquire a Jet from Fort Zancudo?

Massive Roy

If you go in with a chopper, stay low, you shouldn't get picked up by radar and can hopefully land right next to jet before you get spotted.. Then just hit the thruster and pull up.. You don't need a long run up so don't worry about taxi-ing to runway.

marco-polo

Luck has absolutely nothing to do with it, I just got 4 jets in a row because I know how to do it. A guy showed me the other night. Get a light fast car and drive up the hill that's on the right side of the tunnel and you'll jump straight over the fence. Drive straight to the jet on the tarmac. All the times I've done it I came across ONE guy I had to shoot, he was standing next to the jet.

If you get killed and end up near the swamp: Call a taxi, go around towards the bridge, not the tunnel - opposite direction towards the airstrip, and drive up the hill near where the entrance gate is.

There's a little jump close to the fence that you can jump over, saving a trip all the way to the other side of the base.

Wayne Daniels

It's pretty easy for me. Yeah, both me and the Jet will get damaged pretty surely, but I still can get it with this method.

1) Acquire a plane or a helicopter.2) Fly on Fort Zancudo.3) Parachute in (important to know the Jet spawning locations, so you can parachute near one)4) Try to parachute to the Jet in the hangar (some protection from tanks)5) Fly off like a true pilot.

Sometimes there seems to spawn 64590548 tanks right in front of the hangar though. If you can't or don't want to use a plane/helicopter for some reason, here's another way.

1) Acquire a fast car (Bifta or Elegy recommended, since they are free and if they get destroyed, there will be no Insurance costs)2) Drive to a Jet (I've mostly seen the Barracks and the off-road cars while driving, Rhinos seem to be more rare for me)3) Try to fly off like a sir.

Hypertion

you can ramp into the place in a car and try and find a jet with few enemies around it or you can call merryweather and use the helicopter pickup, which doesnt earn you wanted points untill you jump out of so you can again look around and find one that is not occupied

btw using the merryweather pickup means letting the pilot fly you, if you fly in there yourself you will get the wanted levels after a short time and AI jets can spawn to take you out.

on that last bit... if you do manage to get a jet off the ground and suddenly hear a missile lock-on, pull up as hard as you can to avoid the impact, if you are lucky the NPC jet that spawned directly behind you just to launch that missile will not be able to track you but dont let it get too close because they do use their guns and there is no avoiding them if that happenes. AI is crazy accurate with the guns.

Pelican

Stay low to the ground, fly over the ocean and pray to every god in existence that a missile doesn't spawn so close that the warning beep doesn't even go off. If one does get off, just dodge the missile, which is easy enough.

Grand Cannon

The easiest way for me that works 100% of the time is parking a Sandking or any truck and parking it right up here by the pink dot:

You should see a grey wall that you can climb over. After that I just dash to the nearest jet which is just a few meters away. I get in, do a full loop as I take off to avoid the jet that fires on you and boom. There you have it.